The chart below shows the changes in the percentage of households with cars in one European country between 1971 and 2001.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart describes the information about the different numbers of cars which households had from 1971 to 2001.

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while

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the proportion of the families which didn’t have a

car

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was a downward trend, the figure

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others fluctuated abnormally. In 1971, the number of people who had no

car

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reached nearly 50%, which was the highest percentage , and 3 times of two cars, followed by one

car

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.

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figure reduced continuously over a 20-year

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to 30%,

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remained stable until 2001, which was the shortest proportion.

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, the number of households with 2 cars in 1971 was the lowest rate at 18%. After increasing nearly 2 times to 30% in a decade,

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proportion decreased 10% over a 10-year

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. In the

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10 years, it jumped to 30% in the

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period

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.

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, in 1971, there was a considerable decrease of 16% in the rate of one

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over 20 years down to 20% before boosting 2 times in the

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10 years,

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40% and

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the highest by the end of the observed

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